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  • av Sebastiaan Faber
    248,-

    What is left of Francisco Francos legacy in Spain today? Franco ruled Spain as a military dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975. In October 2019, his remains were removed from the massive national monument in which they had been buried for forty-four years. For some, the exhumation confirmed that Spain has long been a modern, consolidated democracy. The reality is more complicated. In fact, the country is still deeply affectedand dividedby the dictatorial legacies of Francoism. In one short volume, Exhuming Franco covers all major facets of the Francoist legacy today, combining research and analysis with reportage and interviews. This book is critical of Spanish democracy; yet, as the final chapter makes clear, Spain is one of many countries facing difficult questions about a conflictive past. To make things worse, the rise of a new, right-wing nationalist revisionism across the West threatens to undo much of the progress made in the past couple of decades when it comes to issues of historical justice.

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    - Women and Science in Spanish Culture
     
    402

    Gathers diverse voices to address women's interaction with STEM fields in the context of Spanish cultural production. This volume focuses on the many ways the arts and humanities provide avenues for deepening the conversation about how women have been involved in, excluded from, and represented within the scientific realm.

  • - Performative Activism in Contemporary Brazil and the Americas
    av Rogelio Minana
    497,-

    The 400th anniversaries of Don Quixote in 2005 and 2015 sparked worldwide celebrations that brought to the fore its ongoing cultural and ideological relevance. Living Quixote examines contemporary appropriations of Miguel de Cervantes's masterpiece in political and social justice movements in the Americas.

  • - Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942
    av Lewis Wade Jones, John W Work & Samuel C Adams
    208,-

    Blues Hall of Fame InducteeNamed a Classic of Blues Literature by the Blues Foundation, 2019 This remarkable book recovers three invaluable perspectives, long thought to have been lost, on the culture and music of the Mississippi Delta. In 1941 and '42 African American schol-ars from Fisk Universityamong them the noted composer and musicologist John W. Work III, sociologist Lewis Wade Jones, and graduate student Samuel C. Adams Jr.joined folklorist Alan Lomax of the Library of Congress on research trips to Coahoma County, Mississippi. Their mission was ';to document adequately the cultural and social backgrounds for music in the community.' Among the fruits of the project were the earliest recordings by the legendary blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. The hallmark of the study was to have been a joint publication of its findings by Fisk and the Library of Congress. While this publication was never completed, Lost Delta Found is composed of the writings, interviews, notes, and musical transcriptions produced by Work, Jones, and Adams in the Coahoma County study. Their work captures, with compelling immediacy, a place, a people, a way of life, and a set of rich musical traditions as they existed in the 1940s. Illustrated with photos and more than 160 musical transcriptions.

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    546,-

    Written by engaged scholars and practitioners, Transforming Cities and Minds is an "instrument-for-action" on the problems faced by US cities that have suffered from decades of disinvestment. The book advocates the concept of reciprocal knowledge: real learning on both sides, campus and city, through a complex network of human relationships.

  • av Clay
    517,-

    Looks in depth at eight successful peer-run programs for adults with serious mental illnesses. The book grew out of a 1998 meeting that led off a nationwide study to assess not only the effectiveness of consumer-operated services programs (COSPs) but also their implications for the future of mental health care in the United States.

  • av Hilderbrand
    517,-

    Asks two important questions: how faithful are the Neopragmatists' reformulations of Classical Pragmatism (particularly Deweyan Pragmatism)?; and more significantly, can their Neopragmatisms work?

  • - My Survival of Japanese Imprisonment During World War II
    av Preston John Hubbard
    546,-

  • - Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching Among College and University Faculty
    av Lisa R. Lattuca
    546,-

    Interdisciplinarity, a favourite buzzword of faculty and administrators, has been approriated to describe so many academic pursuits that it is virtually meaningless. This work remedies this confusion with an original conceptualization of interdisciplinarity based on interviews with faculty.

  • av Nikolai Vasilevich Gogl
    546,-

  • av Lyman Ray Patterson
    546,-

  • av Dmitrij Tschizewskij, Richard Noel Porter & Martin P. Rice
    546,-

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    546,-

    At the end of the 18th century, just 18 colleges existed in the USA. One hundred years later, there were over 450 American colleges and universities. The role of educational institutions had been utterly transformed. This title provides a fresh view of the development of American colleges.

  • av John R. Shook
    627,-

    An exposition of the birth and consistent growth of Dewey's commitment to an idealistic theory of knowledge in the context of a naturalistic empiricism.

  • av Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
    546,-

    In this thoughtful and innovative book, Marcia B. Baxter Magolda writes of ""bridging the worlds between educator and students."" There is perhaps no task more fundamental to effective teaching and learning.

  • - A Half-Century of the Search Course at Rhodes College
    av Michael Nelson
    546,-

  • - How Colleges and Universities Influence Federal Policy
    av Constance Ewing Cook
    546,-

    Explores how the major higher education associations and the constituent American colleges and universities try to influence federal policy, especially congressional policy. In clear prose Cook explains how the higher education community organises itself in Washington, how it lobbies, and how its major interest groups are perceived.

  • - Changing Our Prospects
     
    466

  • av Gregor
    546,-

  • av Josiah Royce
    546,-

    A transitional book in the development of Royce's thought, originally published in 1908, The Philosophy of Loyalty is a key to understanding his influence on the development of pragmatism.

  • - The Life and Times of a Confederate General
    av Robert G. Hartje
    546,-

    A new paperback edition of the standard biography of the flamboyant Earl Van Dorn, one of the most promising yet disappointing officers in the Confederate Army.

  • av Earl W. Thomas
    546,-

    Very real differences do exist between what is spoken and what is written in virtually every language. In Brazilian Portuguese, especially, the gulf between the two is wide. The Syntax Of Spoken Brazilian Portuguese is the first thorough analysis of the spoken language of contemporary Brazil, in English, for students and teachers of the language.

  • av Mildred Haun
    546,-

    Set in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, Haun's stories of Appalachian life capture the forceful simplicity of the legends and ballads that still live in the rural hollows.

  • - Volume II: The Age of Realism
    av Dmitrij Tschizewskij
    546,-

  • - Volume I: The Romantic Period
    av Dmitrij Tschizewskij
    546,-

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    - Culture, Policy, and Safe Motherhood in Peru
    av Lucia Guerra-Reyes
    354 - 733,-

    In 1997, when the author began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires of health personnel and those of indigenous women. Midwives and doctors would plead with her as the anthropologist to "educate women about the dangerous inadequacy of their traditions".

  • av Lacy Lockert
    825,-

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